besides that wicked cool yellow shirt, there is much goodness to mention about this volunteer experience.

i decided that what i admire most about these athletes is their ability to feel and express such pure, unadulterated emotion.

there is so much joy, and so little jealousy. if they love you, they tell you. if they want to hug you, they do. if they've experienced a victory, they'll yell and dance about it. if someone else is victorious, they'll yell and dance about that too.

in my religion, we believe that these particular spirits were so valiant in the pre-earth life that they already qualified for admittance into God's kingdom -- something that the rest of us needed a mortal experience to prepare for.

basically, they are not sent here to depend on us. rather, so much depends on how much we learn from them.